Emigration, immigration, return. Tiphaine Robert does migration history a great service by examining, in one study, three key aspects of mobility. It is a tale of flight, of courage, of the woes of immigration and settlement, of nostalgia, and ultimate return for some, all underscored by the context of the Cold War. As with many migration stories, the geopolitics of the period affected both the choices migrants made in the contexts in which they found themselves and the ways in which they were portrayed.
Emigration. Of the 200,000 Hungarians who left Hungary after the 1956 Revolution and its Soviet repression, some 67,000 went to North America; some 47,000 chose the United Kingdom, Germany, or France; and another 11,000 went to Australia, according to the UNCHR statistics.1 The book begins with the well-known history of the insurrection that led hundreds of thousands to flee, but Robert carefully reminds us...
